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Nature

A division of Springer Nature publishing academic journals, magazines, and online databases.

Nature Portfolio is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature. Founded in 1869, it publishes a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, news, and methodology content across multidisciplinary science, including life sciences, physical sciences, and clinical medicine.

The organization's flagship publication is Nature, a weekly multidisciplinary journal described as the foremost international weekly scientific journal in the world. Its portfolio also includes Nature research journals, Nature Reviews journals, and fully open-access publications such as Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

With more than 800 employees and principal offices in London, New York, Berlin, Shanghai, and Tokyo, Nature Portfolio operates on a global scale. Innovation in scientific publishing and open access is central to its operations, as seen in the growth of Scientific Reports, which became the 5th most-cited journal in the world as of 2023.

Ideas that could help Nature

Paleo-Morphometric Validation Tool
A specialized software tool for paleontologists to objectively compare limb proportions and center-of-mass data between extinct theropods and extant birds to resolve phylogenetic disputes.
Why it helps: As a leading scientific journal, they would benefit from a standardized method of verification for papers claiming new phylogenetic relationships.